Many thanks to all who replied. I am going to look into ADATA and see if
we have the toolkit. Lately I have been happily doing more ASM than
Cobol.
I think the analyst was given the job to find a "one tool fits all"
solution. They were talking about C & C# & C++ & Cobol & ..., both m/f
and c/s.
I could tell from the look in her eyes as I talked to her that at least
she understood that HLASM is like no other language.
btw I remember the old 60s ADR ads on their flowcharter, including the
original one where they had a picture of their office build on fire. I
seem to remember a plane crashed into it. The pitch was that having all
source on tape instead of cards meant their little company was not out of
business after the fire.
I also vividly remember running the program on some spaghetti Cobol. The
paper listing was inches thick as all the stray branches were traced.
They also had a product called metaCobol which supported writing macros
for Cobol. I did an eval and suggested it would take a full time person
to support the macro language. The oil company I was working for declined
to purchase it.
IBM Mainframe Assembler List <ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> wrote on
10/25/2012 04:51:06 PM:
> From: John Ehrman <ehr...@us.ibm.com>
>
> Kirk Talman commented:
> A business person at our company asked me if it was possible to
flowchart
> HLASM programs.
>
> The ASMPUT ("Program Understanding Tool") component of the HLASM Toolkit
> Feature creates flowcharts of one or more assembler programs, with links
> between nodes on the graph and the source lines associated with that
node.
> It uses the ADATA file, and does not rely on the listing.
>
> It's documented in Chapter 4 of the Toolkit Feature User's Guide,
> GC26-8710.
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